“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”

“It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.”

“And even if. I don't know what the day will bring. Still I can tell most anything. To a girl like you.”

“I can't hear a word you're saying
Tell me what are you singing
In the sun”

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

“What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?”

“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”

“Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.”

“I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups”

“What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.”